--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Also in their favor is that Euro-nations have not spent > > > the decades since World War II spending literally *half* > > > of their Gross National Product on "defense," which is > > > a euphemism for both "Better ways to kill people," and > > > "Subsidies for Defense Industries." America has. > > [snip] > > > > Before you open your big, fat mouth about > > things you know nothing about, why don't > > you actually do some research? > > > > Show me one year since WWII when half of > > the GDP was spent on "defense". For goodness > > sake's, even with Obama's $3.8 trillion budget > > this year (which includes defense as just one > > category of spending, which is not even the > > largest one) that only represents about 25% of > > the entire GDP. > > What he's most likely thinking of is the stat > that U.S. defense spending amounts to more > than half of *global military spending*. > > > How does this guy spout off this stuff without > > knowing what he is talking about? > > SOP for Barry. Back in February he made this > startling claim: > > "Over half of the adult population of the U.S. > is on a regular prescription for some kind of > antidepressant." > > Of course it's nowhere *near* that high a > percentage. Maybe he made the same mistake as > he did with defense spending: maybe U.S. > adults account for half the antidepressant > prescriptions globally. > > As I keep saying, Barry just makes up the > reality he'd *like* to have. > > (And of course he'll never admit to having > been wrong on either of these.) > > What a loser. >
What's sad is that he could have made his point without having to make up statistics.
